Welcome Extra Historians to our Unholy Roman Emperor Frederick II Lies video! Where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into our series. With questions like, did Frederick really have a Harem? Who really called Frederick the Antichrist? And which person digested their meal faster in Frederick's science experiment?
Recommended Reading for this series:
Frederick II: The Wonder of the World by Richard D. Bressler
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor by David Abulafia
Donald P. Doolittle, “Frederick II, Natural Scientist,” Science 161, no. 3840 (1968), 420.
John P. Dolan, “A Note on Emperor Frederick II and Jewish Tolerance,” Jewish Social Studies 22 (1960): 165-174.
Frank N. Egerton, “A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 8. Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: Amateur Avian Ecologist and Behavorist.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 84 (2003), 40-44.
Charles H. Haskins, “Science at the Court of the Emperor Frederick II,” The American Historical Review 27 (1922): 669-694.
David Jacoby, “The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Collapse of Hohenstaufen Power in the Levant,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 40 (1986), 83-101.
Richard E. Juday, “Versatile Genius: Frederick II,” Science 22 (1968): 850-851.
Elizabeth Kennan, “Innocent III an the First Political Crusade: a comment on the limitations of Papal power,” Tradition 27 (1971): 231-249.
Arthur Robert Pennington, “The Emperor Frederick II of the House of Hohenstaufen,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1 (1883-1884), 133-157.
James M. Powell, “Church and Crusade: Frederick II and Louis IX,” The Catholic Historical Review 93 (2007): 251-264.
James M. Powell, “Frederick and the Church: A Revisionist View,” The Catholic Historical Review 48 (1963): 487-497.
James M. Powell, “Frederick II and the Church in the Kingdom of Sicily 1220-1224,” Church History 30 (1961): 28-34.
Willibald Sauerländer, “Two Glances from the North: The Presence and absence of Frederick II in the Art of the Empire: the Court Art of Frederick II and the opus francigenum.” Studies in the History of Art 44 (1994): 188-209.

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